Camp X was the first secret agent training camp ever to be built in North America. Established early in the Second World War by Britain's Special Operations Executive on the Canadian shore of Lake Ontario, it trained dozens of Americans and Canadians in the arts of secret war including paramilitary skills, close combat, disguise, secret ciphers, propaganda, and undercover operations. Many of the Camp's graduates became secret agents in enemy-occupied Europe and Asia. Others were sent to South or Central America to counter ...
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Camp X was the first secret agent training camp ever to be built in North America. Established early in the Second World War by Britain's Special Operations Executive on the Canadian shore of Lake Ontario, it trained dozens of Americans and Canadians in the arts of secret war including paramilitary skills, close combat, disguise, secret ciphers, propaganda, and undercover operations. Many of the Camp's graduates became secret agents in enemy-occupied Europe and Asia. Others were sent to South or Central America to counter Nazi espionage and subversion against the allied war effort. Still others worked at the Camp's HYDRA radio station responsible for transmitting some of the most sensitive intelligence material to pass between secret services across the Atlantic. Based on eyewitness accounts and secret files in London, Washington, and Ottawa, the cast of this real life spy adventure also includes Sir William Stephenson ('Intrepid'), OSS chief 'Wild Bill' Donovan, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. This edition includes a new preface by the author bringing the story up to date. A documentary based on the book will be shown on the History Channel in 2014. "True and fascinating... told in vivid detail... With the excitement of a first-rate thriller Camp X dramatically chronicles a key period in the genesis of the international game." - Stars and Stripes "The course of study at Camp X reads like a James Bond training school." - Indianapolis Star "Required reading for any potential 007" - Sunday Mirror
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. First American edition. 327pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Spine slightly cocked, near fine in a fine dustwrapper. The story of the first secret agent training school in North America.
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Very good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. Pencil erasure residue on fep. DJ has some soilingand edge wear. xxiv, 327, [1] p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The author taught History at the University of Toronto and was the Executive Director of Studies for the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. From Wikipedia: "Camp X was the unofficial name of a Second World War paramilitary and commando training installation in Ontario, Canada. Camp X was established December 6, 1941 by the chief of British Security Coordination (BSC), Sir William Stephenson. The camp was originally designed to link Britain and the United States at a time when the US was forbidden by the Neutrality Act to be directly involved in World War II. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the war, Camp X opened for the purpose of training Allied agents intended to be dropped behind enemy lines as saboteurs and spies. The Camp X pupils were schooled in techniques including silent killing, sabotage, partisan support and recruitment methods for resistance movements, demolition, map reading, use of various weapons, and Morse code.